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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 169, NO. 13 | Monday February 1, 2010
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
5 · Lifestyle
8 · Classifieds
11 · Sudoku
12 · Sports
Northern exposure: USC men’s
basketball drops second straight
in the state of Oregon. PAGE 12
Career guide: For information on this week’s
Career Fest and tips on job searching, check out
the Career Guide. PAGE S1
Nathaniel Gonzalez | Daily Trojan
Tickling the ivories
Nareh Arghamanyan, winner of the 2008 Montreal International Music Competition, performs a song in Bovard Auditorium on
Sunday. The performance, presented by USC Friends of Armenian Music, featured works by Bach, Chopin and Schumann. Born in
Armenia, Arghamanyan has been playing piano since she was five years old and has won a wide variety of awards and competitions.
By natalie chau
Daily Trojan
In the first partnership of its kind, the USC
Keck School of Medicine and the College of
Letters, Arts & Sciences are collaborating to
create a new advising program for all under-graduate
students looking to enter the medi-cal
profession.
The program, tentatively called the College-
Keck School of Medicine Pre-health Academic
and Advising Program, will tailor advising
for students who plan to go to medical school
and allow undergraduates to utilize Keck’s re-sources.
“We’ve had partnerships before about ‘how
do we enhance the experience for undergrad-uates
with Keck’ but nothing on this scale,”
said Michael Quick, executive vice dean of the
College.
Until now, the College has offered pre-health
advising to those students admitted to the
Baccalaureate/M.D. program, which guaran-tees
students admission to Keck at the same
time they are admitted as freshmen. This ad-vising
is now being enhanced and expanded to
all students following a pre-health track.
The advising program will be a component
of the Office of College Advising but will part-ner
with Keck experts to provide opportuni-ties
for students to shadow medical experts
and conduct research in the field as well.
“It’s really an attempt to improve the un-dergraduate
experience for people who are
interested in health care careers,” said Carmen
Puliafito, dean of the Keck School of Medicine.
“The thing that’s really important is that
they’re going to have a wider access to health
care delivery experiences ... We’re going to
hook them up with faculty members at the
medical school.”
Pre-health has long been a popular track in
the College. In the fall, 850 of the 2,700 first-year
students in the College registered with
the pre-health designation. Quick said he es-timates
that about one-third of students at the
College are considering a career in the medical
profession.
“From my perspective, we have an amazing
group of undergraduates who have an inter-est
in pre-health,” Quick said. “We’re not doing
them a service that they deserve if we’re not
doing all we can for them.”
Keck, College launching collaborative advising program
Students enrolled in a pre-health track will
have access to advisers and resources from
Keck with the launch of the new program.
By ebony bailey
Daily Trojan
Working at a top-tier research
university can be a stressful job,
but now faculty and staff members
at USC have a chance to relieve
that stress by visiting the Stress
Reduction Lab at the USC Center
for Work and Family Life.
The Center for Work and Family
Life strives to help faculty and staff
members successfully balance
their work and personal lives, and
the Stress Reduction Lab is their
newest method of helping to create
that balance.
The Stress Reduction Lab fea-tures
a program called emWave,
which uses a type of biofeedback
technology that measures heart
rate through a finger or ear clip
sensor plugged into a computer.
That heart rate measurement gives
a sense of how relaxed or stressed
a person is.
“It gives feedback on how your
New lab
helps faculty
reduce stress
Using new technology, USC lab
can help find the most efficient
stress reduction techniques.
| see stress , page 3 |
By nathan goldstein
Daily Trojan
At some schools, it’s possible to get a 4.0 GPA with-out
ever setting foot in the classroom, but USC, defy-ing
the national trend, says it has no intention of let-ting
students get by without going to class.
More than one in four students at colleges and uni-versities
in the United States take at least one class
online, according to a recent study by the Sloan
Consortium, a group that focuses on integrating on-line
courses into higher education. In fall of 2008, the
study showed, enrollment in online courses increased
by 17 percent compared to the previous year.
The increase seems to result from both a greater
availability of, and greater interest in, online courses.
As schools look for ways to save money, online classes
are becoming more and more common. Students are
also gravitating toward online classes because they
allow f lexibility, giving students the chance to ar-range
their classes around a full- or part-time work
schedule.
USC, however, appears to prefer that its undergrad-uates
receive the full college experience.
According to Gene Bickers, vice provost for the
Office of Undergraduate Programs, the university
rarely offers undergraduate courses only online and
will not be increasing the frequency of this practice.
“The philosophy behind it is that face-to-face
learning is the best, particularly with undergradu-ates,”
Bickers said. “It’s more the experience.”
Online-only
courses not in
USC’s future
Online courses are becoming more popular
nationwide, but USC will not follow the trend.
| see health, page 2 |
Year 2006 2007
Applicants 254 318
Acceptances 146 156
Matriculations 138 143
55 percent male
45 percent female
Median age: 23.6
Applications to medical
school from USC
Source: USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Natalie Chau | Daily Trojan
| see online, page 3 |

Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 169, NO. 13 | Monday February 1, 2010
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
5 · Lifestyle
8 · Classifieds
11 · Sudoku
12 · Sports
Northern exposure: USC men’s
basketball drops second straight
in the state of Oregon. PAGE 12
Career guide: For information on this week’s
Career Fest and tips on job searching, check out
the Career Guide. PAGE S1
Nathaniel Gonzalez | Daily Trojan
Tickling the ivories
Nareh Arghamanyan, winner of the 2008 Montreal International Music Competition, performs a song in Bovard Auditorium on
Sunday. The performance, presented by USC Friends of Armenian Music, featured works by Bach, Chopin and Schumann. Born in
Armenia, Arghamanyan has been playing piano since she was five years old and has won a wide variety of awards and competitions.
By natalie chau
Daily Trojan
In the first partnership of its kind, the USC
Keck School of Medicine and the College of
Letters, Arts & Sciences are collaborating to
create a new advising program for all under-graduate
students looking to enter the medi-cal
profession.
The program, tentatively called the College-
Keck School of Medicine Pre-health Academic
and Advising Program, will tailor advising
for students who plan to go to medical school
and allow undergraduates to utilize Keck’s re-sources.
“We’ve had partnerships before about ‘how
do we enhance the experience for undergrad-uates
with Keck’ but nothing on this scale,”
said Michael Quick, executive vice dean of the
College.
Until now, the College has offered pre-health
advising to those students admitted to the
Baccalaureate/M.D. program, which guaran-tees
students admission to Keck at the same
time they are admitted as freshmen. This ad-vising
is now being enhanced and expanded to
all students following a pre-health track.
The advising program will be a component
of the Office of College Advising but will part-ner
with Keck experts to provide opportuni-ties
for students to shadow medical experts
and conduct research in the field as well.
“It’s really an attempt to improve the un-dergraduate
experience for people who are
interested in health care careers,” said Carmen
Puliafito, dean of the Keck School of Medicine.
“The thing that’s really important is that
they’re going to have a wider access to health
care delivery experiences ... We’re going to
hook them up with faculty members at the
medical school.”
Pre-health has long been a popular track in
the College. In the fall, 850 of the 2,700 first-year
students in the College registered with
the pre-health designation. Quick said he es-timates
that about one-third of students at the
College are considering a career in the medical
profession.
“From my perspective, we have an amazing
group of undergraduates who have an inter-est
in pre-health,” Quick said. “We’re not doing
them a service that they deserve if we’re not
doing all we can for them.”
Keck, College launching collaborative advising program
Students enrolled in a pre-health track will
have access to advisers and resources from
Keck with the launch of the new program.
By ebony bailey
Daily Trojan
Working at a top-tier research
university can be a stressful job,
but now faculty and staff members
at USC have a chance to relieve
that stress by visiting the Stress
Reduction Lab at the USC Center
for Work and Family Life.
The Center for Work and Family
Life strives to help faculty and staff
members successfully balance
their work and personal lives, and
the Stress Reduction Lab is their
newest method of helping to create
that balance.
The Stress Reduction Lab fea-tures
a program called emWave,
which uses a type of biofeedback
technology that measures heart
rate through a finger or ear clip
sensor plugged into a computer.
That heart rate measurement gives
a sense of how relaxed or stressed
a person is.
“It gives feedback on how your
New lab
helps faculty
reduce stress
Using new technology, USC lab
can help find the most efficient
stress reduction techniques.
| see stress , page 3 |
By nathan goldstein
Daily Trojan
At some schools, it’s possible to get a 4.0 GPA with-out
ever setting foot in the classroom, but USC, defy-ing
the national trend, says it has no intention of let-ting
students get by without going to class.
More than one in four students at colleges and uni-versities
in the United States take at least one class
online, according to a recent study by the Sloan
Consortium, a group that focuses on integrating on-line
courses into higher education. In fall of 2008, the
study showed, enrollment in online courses increased
by 17 percent compared to the previous year.
The increase seems to result from both a greater
availability of, and greater interest in, online courses.
As schools look for ways to save money, online classes
are becoming more and more common. Students are
also gravitating toward online classes because they
allow f lexibility, giving students the chance to ar-range
their classes around a full- or part-time work
schedule.
USC, however, appears to prefer that its undergrad-uates
receive the full college experience.
According to Gene Bickers, vice provost for the
Office of Undergraduate Programs, the university
rarely offers undergraduate courses only online and
will not be increasing the frequency of this practice.
“The philosophy behind it is that face-to-face
learning is the best, particularly with undergradu-ates,”
Bickers said. “It’s more the experience.”
Online-only
courses not in
USC’s future
Online courses are becoming more popular
nationwide, but USC will not follow the trend.
| see health, page 2 |
Year 2006 2007
Applicants 254 318
Acceptances 146 156
Matriculations 138 143
55 percent male
45 percent female
Median age: 23.6
Applications to medical
school from USC
Source: USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Natalie Chau | Daily Trojan
| see online, page 3 |